Ecuador — Fishery/Seafood Products
Ecuador received 44 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 8 in 2024-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Salmonella, filth, and no food-canning registration. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Ecuador, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from Ecuador
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 42 refusals in the last 3 years, 35 were hazard findings and 7 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (20); DNEI — Northeast (12); DWCI — West Coast (9).
- Riskiest months
- May, April, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (21), Salmonella (10), histamine (5), poisonous substance (3), veterinary drug residue (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (4), no food-canning registration (3), labeling (2).
FDA does not publish how many entries it examines, so no page can state a true probability of refusal; these are the figures that are published.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish-Other | 25 | — | — | filth |
| Shrimp-Prawn | 15 | — | — | Salmonella |
| Tuna | 2 | — | — | no process filing |
"1 refusal per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent refusals
- AQZ-0640243-5 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DSWI. Salmonella
- 991-0278711-8 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DWCI. filth
- RD8-0024693-9 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- RD8-0024691-3 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- 224-5111984-0 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- 224-5111673-9 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- RD8-0024692-1 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- 594-0410443-8 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 406-0621238-5 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DSEI. veterinary drug residuenot in English
- DP4-1038363-3 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- RD8-0024606-1 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- AJR-7163816-5 CORVINA Import division DNEI. labeling
- D97-2238810-2 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 8LJ-0036091-2 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. filthpoisonous substance
- DP4-3973827-0 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 147-0247657-4 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- ABC-2255462-2 CRAB Import division DSEI. filth
- D97-2136922-8 MAHI MAHI Import division DNEI. filth
- 9JW-0415537-3 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 9K9-1025805-9 CRAB Import division DSEI. no manufacturer nameno net quantityno common namelabeling+2 more
Data and downloads
Download all 88 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-09-18. To get new ones for Ecuador by email, watch Ecuador.
Ecuador country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →